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The Legacy of Slaves at the Cape - Coggle Diagram
The Legacy of Slaves at the Cape
Language
Afrikaans devolped as the result of slaves trying to communicate with there mainly Dutch-speaking owners.
The first Afrikaans was written in Arabic script.
Afrikaans also contains may words that came from the eastern languages spoken by slaves.
South Africa were diverse and included Buginese, Javanese, Malagasy, Tamil and importantly, two Indian Ocean lingua franca's, Creole Portuguese and Malay.
As a result of interaction of people who spoke a variety of languages but who had to communicate in Dutch.
Food
People refer to the Indian and Indonesian influences on South African cuisine.
The origin of some South African recipes can be seen in the names of food.
Indonesian cooking methods and food customs as the strongest influence of South African cuisine.
For example sosaties, bredie, curry, bobotie, koeksisters and tameletjie.
Religion
Islam was also regarded as the religion of resistance.
By 1832, a third of the population in Cape Town was regarded as Muslim.
Music
Indigenous tribespeople and slaves imported from the east adapted Western musical instruments and ideas
The Khoi-Khoi, for instance, developed the ramkie, a guitar with three or four strings, based on that of Malabar slaves and used it to blend Khoi and Western folk songs
Western music was played by slave orchestras
